[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] Fix `readability-container-data-pointer` check (PR #165636)

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https://github.com/zeyi2 created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/165636

Fix issue in readability-container-data-pointer when the container expression is a dereference (e.g., `&(*p)[0]`). The previous fix-it suggested `*p.data()`, which changes semantics because `.` binds tighter than `*`. The fix now correctly suggests `(*p).data()`.

Closes [#164852](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/164852)


>From f29accd639928c3560309a15bf42e81b65e5b20f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mtx <mitchell.xu2 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:56:11 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] [clang-tidy] Fix `readability-container-data-pointer` check

---
 .../readability/ContainerDataPointerCheck.cpp        |  7 +++++--
 .../checkers/readability/container-data-pointer.cpp  | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ContainerDataPointerCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ContainerDataPointerCheck.cpp
index 11756d10a8221..d9338888cc40e 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ContainerDataPointerCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ContainerDataPointerCheck.cpp
@@ -107,8 +107,11 @@ void ContainerDataPointerCheck::check(const MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) {
       Lexer::getSourceText(CharSourceRange::getTokenRange(SrcRange),
                            *Result.SourceManager, getLangOpts())};
 
-  if (!isa<DeclRefExpr, ArraySubscriptExpr, CXXOperatorCallExpr, CallExpr,
-           MemberExpr>(CE))
+  const auto *OpCall = dyn_cast<CXXOperatorCallExpr>(CE);
+  bool NeedsParens =
+      OpCall ? (OpCall->getOperator() != OO_Subscript)
+             : !isa<DeclRefExpr, MemberExpr, ArraySubscriptExpr, CallExpr>(CE);
+  if (NeedsParens)
     ReplacementText = "(" + ReplacementText + ")";
 
   if (CE->getType()->isPointerType())
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/readability/container-data-pointer.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/readability/container-data-pointer.cpp
index a8e0eb6d262e6..26f9d9f16ac8c 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/readability/container-data-pointer.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/readability/container-data-pointer.cpp
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ template <typename T>
 struct enable_if<true, T> {
   typedef T type;
 };
+
+template <typename T>
+struct unique_ptr {
+  T &operator*() const;
+  T *operator->() const;
+};
 }
 
 template <typename T>
@@ -144,3 +150,9 @@ int *r() {
   // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:10: warning: 'data' should be used for accessing the data pointer instead of taking the address of the 0-th element [readability-container-data-pointer]
   // CHECK-FIXES: return holder.v.data();
 }
+
+void s(std::unique_ptr<std::vector<unsigned char>> p) {
+  f(&(*p)[0]);
+  // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:5: warning: 'data' should be used for accessing the data pointer instead of taking the address of the 0-th element [readability-container-data-pointer]
+  // CHECK-FIXES: f((*p).data());
+}